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Is there a possibility to put a chainsaw in the game as weapon?one with a short blade (1-5 stars) free in crates or to trade in tradeshop and one with a large blade (5 stars) to buy in the shop.I think it's a good weapon for a scout or warrior!Or a new class

Despite what some horror films might have shown you, chainsaws are not good melee weapons. They are heavy, have a short reach for their weight, require fuel, tend to jam (or worse) if they encounter cloth (like the clothing remnants on a zombie), are prone to fatal kickback if they hit anything that isn't a nice and even piece of wood (like a zombie's bones). Nobody is going to be running with one and you just can't swing them around like a sword/axe/cleaver.

It shows up once in the comics, Sawyer is a unique character with a special weapon in a different game and this is not Preacher. If you want lots of characters running amok with chainsaws, you're in the wrong game.

It isn't a scout or warrior weapon and would just make the game look damn silly if it were used in that way. If you can persuade Next Games to create another one-off with a unique weapon, like Rufus, that would be a different matter.

a shovel and a hockey stick are silly eather and they put it in the game

For hitting a zombie with, neither is very silly (once we get past the basic silliness of zombies). They might initially feel embarrassing to wield, if you're a survivor still adjusting to the changed world you live in, but they're both practical improvised weapons. The hockey stick is just a club; for some ice hockey players, that's all it's ever been. As for shovels, they have a respectable history as a weapon, as any soldier from the WWI trenches could have told you. The commando forces in today's armies teach the use of entrenching tools as weapons.

Neither tool will catch on the jacket zip of the person trying to use it and decapitate them.

I could see the chainsaw as a weapon for maybe bruiser. Not all their weapons stun. Chainsaw could be a damage over time weapon that ticks off like fire.

Ex: Negan with chainsaw runs up to a heavy(can't be stunned), does significantly more upfront damage than say a baseball bat. At the start of the walker turn, it takes additional damage. Just like you would move a chainsaw around.

Imo, bruiser could use some love and that's the kind of interesting utility that could be used on the "kill the hard walker" missions.

I do hereby propose a new weapon concept for the consideration of those in power. May the lords of human interface for NextGames ( @Kaz@Shteevie ) take heed upon these words and the wisdom I do impart.

Our community, made up of some 28 survivors, have been mulling over this news of possible new weapons being found around our area of comfort. We all love the idea of shotguns for our assaults because heck, who doesn’t like the blasting power of a semi modified choke on a short barrel shotgun.

We have also started scavenging all hardware stores we can find. One of our scouts found a broken set of bolt cutters and we were unable to repair them. Glenn, Carol, and Annie have been throwing the request to find a decent pair out for awhile now. According to our scouts, they are no heavier or awkward than a pitchfork, snow shovel, or Roman spear. However they have a use that non of the others do. They can open crates faster and open gates faster than any other tool we carry.

When the assault and shooter group commented on how useless they would be as a weapon compared to say, a nice Bowie knife or Marine Corps K-Bar, the girls (yes we tease Glenn about being a girl) retorted with examples of bolt cutters being used in assault cases before this outbreak or whatever happened. An old newspaper tells of a man who was finally arrested on three different assault charges, of which in two of them he used bolt cutters as the weapon. Read about it here, this happened in Alameda County and was reported on by a news station in Dublin! No, not that Dublin, the one in California U.S.A.

A catalog was also found which depicts a set of bolt cutters called Rapid Assault Bolt Cutters and we have a copy of it now hanging in the latrine. No matter how many times it’s removed, it somehow reappears. We have no clue how many copies of the catalog were found and nobody will fess up about posting the flier but one copy is left in the weapons locker ( viewable here ) so we know it’s someone on rotation as guard in there.

They do look promising as they have telescoping handles which allow a 19-30” reach as a weapon or for more leverage on those thicker locks. The girls think they could open any lock in half the time with them.

Anyways, we just wanted to share that and now that it has been done, maybe we can have a different damn conversation at the campfire!!

Respectfully, the living. Have a blessed day and may you outrun what you cannot kill.

@Renopwns , I like shotgun as a mesh (artwork) and I've advocated for it.
Hunters already have it: gold large caliber. That behaves exactly like a buck shot, narrow choke shotgun.
Assault already have it (metaphorically) in every weapon. Buck shot, wide choke.
Point being: there's not much nuance left, in gameplay terms, for another weapon class. It's art and existing traits in new combinations.

So the only task for NG is art, an animation change (If it's an Assault weapon), and a new firing sound.
That might seem like easy update, but it's non-trivial.

That's probably how NG would handle it and although there isn't much justification for a whole new class, I still think it would be cool. They could have a charge attack that makes enemies bleed or something.

Zs don't bleed, but it's a good idea for the trait mix against Ss.
(There's a trait that causes bleeding.... Right? Err... Hmm....)
If not, it would be similar to on fire (again, except art).

Don't get me wrong! I'm all in over the top on elements that increase the choices of tactics! I just know that the game-rule effect of shotguns is already A Thing (aside from that great bleeding idea!).